Interim board to manage Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust

The Victorian Government has appointed an interim board to manage the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust in East Gippsland.

The seven board members will administer the trust's finances and assets until June and form a plan to return the trust to community management next year.

Shareholders of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust have threatened to go to court to challenge the new body, which they say is unrepresentative and undemocratic.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jeanette Powell says that is not the case.

"We only wanted seven members, four of them are Aboriginal, three of them are non-Aboriginal but for the transitional board they have to be people with absolutely special skills," she said.

"We want to make sure that we're setting up the community to be successful when they change over to self-management, we don't want to have challenges so that they can come back to the Government and say we need some help.

"Geoff Hocking is the chair of that board, Uncle Bill Tregonning is on the board, Margaret Pearce, Alice Pepper, Keith Clarke OAM, Phil Bogle and Sue Medson OAM, so we have a broad spectrum there of people with administration skills, law and order skills, humanitarian skills, welfare skills."